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WILD TARGET

“The best thing about that was learning how to handle guns. We were at a shooting range, and I thought it would be easy. Just aim and fire, right? But it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.” (Rupert Grint about Wild Target)

Directed by Jonathan Lynn, Wild Target stars Rupert Grint as Tony alongside Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Eileen Atkins. Filmed in London and on the Isle of Man in autumn 2008, Wild Target was released in the UK on 18 June 2010.

The Story

Victor Maynard is the best and most expensive hitman in London, having taken over from his late father and his mother, who is now residing at “Memory Lane” and would love to see him settling down and getting a heir.
Rose is a thief and sells fake paintings and ends up tricking Ferguson into buying a fake Rembrandt. Ferguson therefore hires Victor to kill her, but Victor fails when he begins to fall in love.
When Ferguson’s bodyguards Mike an Barney take it upon themselves to kill them both, Victor and Rose go on the run – along with Tony, who got caught in the crossfire. They find a room in a Hotel – only two rooms next to Ferguson’s suite.
With some luck (and a baby’s help), Victor, Rose and Tony once again manage to escape and find refugee at Victor’s house on the countryside, while Ferguson sends Hector Dixon, the second-best and almost-most-expensive hitman, after them…

Rupert’s character

Tony works at a car park washing cars by hand, and meets Victor Maynard and Rose when they have a run-in with Ferguson’s bodyguards. Mistakenly believing Victor to be a private detective, Tony becomes his apprentice and joins Victor and Rose on the run.

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Trivia Information

Rose’s room at Fairview Hotel is No 27, the trio’s room at the Andaz is 322.

Victor costs 30.000 per week.

Tony works at the car park by offering “Hand Car Wash”.

Jerry Bailey faked Rembrandt’s painting.

Tony’s “training” would last 6 weeks and include a bed and a ticket for public transport in London.

Victor’s dad Felix was 55 when Victor was born.

Rose’s hand is on Tony’s thigh when they are hiding from Victor’s mother.

When Rose is about to leave, Tony is wearing the white t-shirt under his sweater that he wore to bed the night he spent with Rose.

Tony is holding his cutlery like most left-handed people do (fork in the right, knife in the left hand).

Rose orders a large Glenfiddich, cognac, Belvedere, a Becks (for the barman), two red wines and peanuts.

You can see Tony wearing three types of underwear: when he climbs into the Mini, he is wearing white/blue boxers, when he is training his sword fighting, they are black, and in the bathing scene, Victor has blue/red/grey striped ones with the other clothing in his hands

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Behind the Scenes

Rupert had to learn how to take apart a 9mm Glock handgun and set it back together.

Rupert grew a beard for the part of Tony.

The Manx leg of shooting lasted for three weeks.

While filming on the Isle of Man, The Creek Inn, Peel, became Rupert’s and the crew’s local for lunch and in the evenings, when they watched the live bands.

RG.us Exclusive: Helena Bonham Carter was originally cast in the female lead but we were informed that she had to withdraw from the production when a tragedy hit her family. She was replaced by English actress Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada).

At the Isle of Man, Rupert went to have dinner with the Wild Target crew several times.

Director Jonathan Lynn lent his voice to Roger, the parrot.

The number of the hotel room, the headlines of the newspaper clippings are the same as those in the original, Cible Emouvante.

This is the painting that Rose is tricking Ferguson with. It is (in reality) hanging in the National Gallery where the scenes in the film take place.

Wild Target is based on the French film “Cible Emouvante” from 1992, starring Guillaume Depardieu as Antoine (here: Tony). Aged 37, Guillaume died during the production of Wild Target.

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Rupert about Wild Target

It’s quite embarrassing where I had to stand in the bath, I had a jock strap kind of thing, it was weird because it wasn’t water, it was milk… to make the water look cloudy so you couldn’t see anything – we were in a bath of milk.
Thankfully there weren’t many people on set just me and Bill. He didn’t really say very much, but yes it did feel just a bit uncomfortable for the both of us.~Musicrooms.net 2009

“It was just really the script. It was really funny, it’s a quite dark comedy, which is quiet cool. The cast is great. It’s just seemed like a cool thing to do.”(Lovefilm 2010)

“The guns appealed to me quite a bit – it was refreshing, and very unlike Ron. All the action stuff – the car chase too – was really fun,” he says.(Telegraph June 8, 2010)

“He is a nice guy. He’s kind of mysterious, too. You don’t know where he comes from. He just appears suddenly. Kind of wrong place at the wrong time really.”(Lovefilm 2010)